KARACHI: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony Noor-ul-Haq Qadri has asserted that some secret services were trying to spread sectarianism in Pakistan by using fake social media accounts.
Addressing an event in Karachi that focused on sectarian harmony, he said that the government had organized the convention to raise awareness about this issue and request scholars and general public not to fall for the conspiracies.
“We have noticed that blasphemous material related to sacred religious personalities gets frequently distributed on social media. It’s all planned,” he warned.
“For four decades, the conspiracy to destabilize Pakistan along linguistic, religious and ethnic lines has failed,” Qadri said. “Now the last attempt is a conspiracy to spread riots among Shias, Sunnis, Barelvis, Deobandis and Salafis,” he added.
He further informed that a draft law has been prepared regarding the Holy Prophets, Companions and the Ahl al-Bayt. “Religious scholars from all sects are being consulted in this regard and the law will soon be approved by both houses,” he added.
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